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TIL : Cold temperatures weaken nasal immunity, making us more vulnerable to viruses. A mere 5°C drop in nasal tissue temperature reduces immune response by nearly half.

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YQpW TIL US taxpayers fund the overwhelming majority of addiction research in the world.
xDVo TIL that MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) was done at the ancient Olympics. It is called Pankration and is the only event that wasn’t reinstated with the creation of the modern Olympics.
0Z6M TIL that after the 1995 Saturday Night Live season, NBC fired Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from the show.
ZpwAQ TIL right after the Manhattan Project's Trinity explosion test was completed, Kenneth Bainbridge, who was the director of the test, remarked to Robert Oppenheimer that "now we are all sons of bitches." Afterwards, he dedicated most of his scientific career to ending the testing of nuclear weapons.
Kl66 TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart at first disapproved of Galaxy Quest, because it made fun of Star Trek; until Jonathan Frakes “Riker” convinced Stewart to see it, after which Stewart described the movie as “Brilliant… No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did.”